Kimberley Jones

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For 1,017 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 40% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 58% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.3 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Kimberley Jones' Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 All the Real Girls
Lowest review score: 0 My Boss's Daughter
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 1017
  2. Mixed: 311 out of 1017
  3. Negative: 137 out of 1017
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Kimberley Jones
    Mondovino
    As is, it's simply too much information crammed too haphazardly into a running time that at times borders on interminable.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 30 Kimberley Jones
    Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
    "By practicing his art, he revealed himself to us." Fellini: I’m a Born Liar provides proof positive: The art indeed reveals far more than this pedestrian documentary ever does.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Kimberley Jones
    Charlie Wilson's War
    Perhaps there was some confusion – should we play this as a lark or a lesson in geopolitical unrest? – or maybe there was some studio involvement to defang the politics; whatever the case, the noncommittal Charlie Wilson's War treads a good-natured but yawning in-between.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    Last Days
    It's unclear if Van Sant intends to inspire guilt; here, as elsewhere, he is exasperatingly abstruse. And in this striving to not say too much, he ends up not saying much of anything at all.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    Chbosky surrounds his hurting characters with the cinematic equivalent of a hug circle – which is sweet, but rather antithetical to tension-building.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    In the Aisles
    In the Aisles is a triumph of mood, aided by an eclectic soundtrack that skips from Delta blues to electro-pop to Strauss and Donizetti, and a worthy stage for Rogowski to continue introducing himself to an international audience.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    Long Shot
    The script, and Theron, matter-of-factly illustrate the old adage about Ginger Rogers, that she did everything Astaire did, only backwards and in heels. That the film actually gives her credit for it? That’s the best kind of wish fulfillment fantasy.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 20 Kimberley Jones
    Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
    Holy hell, having to sit through nearly three hours of M:I making like Ethan Hunt is the Messiah is not just exhausting: It’s a total misread of what makes these movies so fun. What a bummer.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    The Gospel According to André
    While Kate Novack’s documentary suffers from a certain vagueness in the telling of Talley’s life, what’s clear is that it’s been an exceptional one.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Kimberley Jones
    Ice Age: Continental Drift
    Amusing but never rousing, this fourth installment in the Ice Age cartoon franchise comes fretted with freezer burn.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    The Wrecking Crew
    The subject itself – the musicians, the music – and the spirit of the thing – one son’s obvious devotion – transcend the film’s technical shortcomings.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 40 Kimberley Jones
    The Future
    As an unsparing portrait of disaffection among the small-paycheck, faux-creative class, The Future is rather astute … which isn't to say it isn't also bang-your-head-on-the-wall annoying.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    Kung Fu Panda 3
    This is a visually stunning picture, a rhapsody of saturated color and contrasting texture, from the painstaking detail of coarse panda fur to the painterly dreamscape that is the spirit world.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    The Girl Who Played with Fire
    The Girl Who Played With Fire's chief frustration is in how removed Salander and Blomkvist are from each other.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    The Trip to Spain
    In a startling, last-reel freeze frame, the male ego pops like a balloon, and I wanted to pre-book for the next Trip right away.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 89 Kimberley Jones
    Son of Rambow
    Funny and sweet and guaranteed to flood you with good feeling.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 40 Kimberley Jones
    In Good Company
    Grace and Johannson's courtship has all the heat of a wet wipe and, worse yet, leaves Quaid offscreen for long stretches.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    Julie & Julia
    A romantic comedy, too, but this time the romance is between two women, and one of them, truth be told, is a dud.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    Captain America: The First Avenger
    The final conflict is so protracted as to comfortably accommodate a bathroom break. Don't worry. You won't miss anything you haven't seen before.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    City Island
    It has a basic goodness of heart that counteracts, if not entirely cancels out, the film's broadness and busyness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    Something's Gotta Give
    [Keaton's] lost none of the spunk, sass, and ditzbomb charm of her "Annie Hall" days. She, quite simply, is marvelous. Too bad her similarly iconic co-star is such a toad. Jack never stops being Jack, to great distraction.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    Sausage Party
    Sausage Party glints of greatness, but this is half-cocked comedy at best.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Stuart Little 2
    It's easy enough to forget there are special effects involved, so convincing is Stu's rippling fur and big beamy eyes filling up with tears.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    The Founder
    An actor most at home playing devilish, Keaton’s got the last-reel Machiavellian shrug down cold. But neither he nor the filmmakers do much to illuminate the neural pistons fired from brain to bodily shrug.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Pahokee
    The filmmakers’ decision to stay out of the way and shape the story largely in the editing room bears different returns – a less mediated, more immersive, and ultimately quite moving portrait of hopeful youths headed into a harder adulthood.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Mulan
    It smartly skips the goofier aspects of the original, too. Once you’ve shed musical numbers and Eddie Murphy cracking wise as a dragon, you’re in far less jocular territory...And that feels right for the material.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie
    It's unclear where the buck stops in terms of creative authority – at one point, Clayman complains that "the only thing I feel in control of is the money" – which renders OC87 at once a remarkable achievement, and a fatally compromised film.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 67 Kimberley Jones
    Sasquatch Sunset
    This thing’s a journey, y’all – the miraculous coexisting with yawning boredom.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 78 Kimberley Jones
    Love & Friendship
    What wicked good fun it is watching this bad girl do her worst.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 50 Kimberley Jones
    Cyrano
    The story – two guys, one girl, much deceit – is eternally contemporary. Sometimes gigglingly so in the hands of ever-erratic Joe Wright (Anna Karenina, Atonement, Pan), who injects horny, corny musical theatre-kid energy into this latest iteration of Rostand’s doomed love triangle.
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